Information processing apparatus, information delivery system, information processing method, and recording medium

a technology of information processing and information delivery system, applied in the direction of recording signal processing, electronic editing digitised analogue information signals, instruments, etc., can solve the problems of reducing work efficiency on the delivery side, increasing software bugs, and difficult multimedia information creation, etc., and achieves the effect of lightening duty
US6993536B2Inactive Publication Date: 2006-01-31SONY CORP
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Authority / Receiving Office
US · United States
Patent Type
Patents(United States)
Current Assignee / Owner
SONY CORP
Publication Date
2006-01-31
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

A multimedia file has a format in which actual data is embedded in a file structure. The multimedia information is assembled in blocks, each composed of a header area and a data area, and has a hierarchical structure in which a block is embedded in another block. Header area information may include a file name identification information (block name), a number of child blocks information and data length identification information. This arrangement facilitates the creation and editing of a multimedia file, permitting high-speed data searching.
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention

[0002] The present invention relates to an information delivery system for delivering the content of multimedia information, an information processing apparatus for use in the information delivery system, an information processing method, and a recording medium recording the multimedia information.

[0003] 2. Description of the Related Art

[0004] In one of known systems, a server transmits audio data as a musical composition to a user, delivering the musical composition to a recording medium of the user or an audio player having a recording medium therewithin. Such a system is a music delivery system.

[0005] Besides the audio data as the musical composition, information transmitted and received in the music delivery system can include image data such as of a jacket of the music record or other media, and text data such as lyrics. Types of data to be transmitted and received are not only audio data but also a content including the ima...

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